Tag: ① memo

Chasing Barracudas


① memo 20180530 ~ Chasing Barracudas ~ Dive #55 (with a leaking regulator) on May 21 , 2006 , filming with the small Sony DSC-T1 camera between 7-18 meters at the Andrea 1 dive site in Bonaire , Caribbean Netherlands

Youra Livschitz , Robert Maistriau, Jean Franklemon


① memo 20180528 ~ Youra Livschitz , Robert Maistriau, Jean Franklemon ~ The weekly Yiddish newspaper Der Blatt (Yiddish: דער בּלאַט‎) published last Friday (May 25, ‘18) a 6 pages long article on the 75th anniversary in Boortmeerbeek , Belgium , of the ‘only rescue action against a transport to Auschwitz’ (צודי75יָאר איינציגע רעטונג ַאקציע קעגן “אוישוויץ טרַאנספָּארט”) – the 20th transport.
The three Belgian heroes Youra Livschitz , Robert Maistriau, and Jean Franklemon liberated 17 people during an attack on the cattle car train ‘Transport XX’ – crammed with 1631 Jewish passengers, heading for Auschwitz – and another more than 200 others jumped out also.
Portaits in the wind filmed following the 75th anniversary in Boortmeerbeek , Belgium